SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2022
Face Processing in Early Development: A Systematic Review of Behavioral Studies and Considerations in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Antenatal and neonatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and children's development: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric research · 2024Pooled it
- Face Processing in Early Development: A Systematic Review of Behavioral Studies and Considerations in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Face perception and impact of face masks at 6 months post-term age in preterm and term infants (The BabyFace Study).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Individual gaze preferences and attentional cues interact in masked and unmasked face recognition.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Risks and benefits of face masks in children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Variations in face experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic affect infants' preference for their mother's face.PloS one · 2026Article
- Limited Effect of Masking During COVID-19 Pandemic on ADOS-2 Algorithm Scores in Toddlers With and Without Autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Sibling relationships and visual impairment: investigating their bond with a focus on the role of social play.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Combining Real-Time Neuroimaging With Machine Learning to Study Attention to Familiar Faces During Infancy: A Proof of Principle Study.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Association of antenatal or neonatal SARS-COV-2 exposure with developmental and respiratory outcomes, and healthcare usage in early childhood: a national prospective cohort study.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- The effect of processing partial information in dynamic face perception.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: toddlers learn earlier to read emotions with face masks.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children relate to the child's age and experience.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- Developmental and behavioural outcomes at 2 years in babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic: communication concerns in a pandemic birth cohort.Archives of disease in childhood · 2023Observational
- Real-time monitoring of infant theta power during naturalistic social experiences.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals.Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Community diversity and the other-race effect in infancy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Children's total blindness as a risk factor for early parent-child relationships: preliminary findings from an Italian sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown.Developmental psychobiology · 2023Article
- Early Word Segmentation Behind the Mask.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Human faces are one of the most prominent stimuli in the visual environment of young infants and convey critical information for the development of social cognition. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mask wearing has become a common practice outside the home environment. With masks covering nose and mouth regions, the facial cues available to the infant are impoverished. The impact of these changes on development is unknown but is critical to debates around mask mandates in early childhood settings. As infants grow, they increasingly interact with a broader range of familiar and unfamiliar people outside the home; in these settings, mask wearing could possibly influence social development. In order to generate hypotheses about the effects of mask wearing on infant social development, in the present work, we systematically review
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